Dennis Cooper: Smothered in Hugs

Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries. USA 2010, 377 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins
From the internationally acclaimed author of »Ugly Man« and one of »the last literary outlaws in mainstream American fiction« (Bret Easton Ellis) comes a survey of his cultural criticism. From interviews with celebrities such as Leonard DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves to obituaries for Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix - to writings on social issues - including the touchstone piece »AIDS: ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: Mapping the Territory

Selected Nonfiction. USA 2009, 258 pp., hardbound, € 21.69
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Novelist Christopher Bram has been writing essays for 30 years. His first collection of nonfiction, including previously unpublished pieces, ranges through such topics as the power of gay fiction, coming out in the 1970s in Virginia, low-budget filmmaking with friends in New York, and the sexual imagination of Henry James. He describes the heady experience of seeing his novel »Gods ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider

Foreword by Cheryl Clarke. USA 2007 (1984), 190 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Crossing Press
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, »Sister Outsider« celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: Selected Essays

UK 2007, 451 pp., Pb, € 17.99
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Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his 50-year writing ... Weiterlesen

Wayne R. Besen: Bashing Back

USA 2007, 208 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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In »Bashing Back« the outspoken author and activist Wayne Besen delivers a »left hook« to the conservative spin on culture, politics, and people. Funny, provocative, and informative, this compilation of 72 columns puts a progressive spin on hot-button topics in the political, cultural, and social arenas. It presents an A-to-Z look at Besen's worldview, including AIDS, Bill O'Reilly, »Brokeback Mountain«, ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga (eds.): Queering the Popular Pitch

USA/UK 2006, 308 pp., brochure, € 36.95
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Taylor and Francis
This new collection of 18 essays by international scholars explores the queer iconography implicit in a variety of art forms, including film musicals, videos, cabaret, Latin House, poetry and, in some cases, cultural personae. The authors delve into issues concerning race and ethnicity, forgotten histories, the body in music, and the use of popular music in power politics - situating ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Kendall, Wayne Martino (eds.): Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws

USA 2006, 180 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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This book explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. It features essays from authors, educators, and activists who challenge the stigmatization and issues of power they face as gay men who don't fit the masculine mold formed by the gay porn industry and the media. They try to reveal the sting ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: In a Queer Time & Place

USA 2005, 213 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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In her first book since the critically acclaimed »Female Masculinity«, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms - especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Stories of David Leavitt

UK 2005, 525 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
This is the complete collection of short stories from one of America's most respected gay authors. Here, David Leavitt covers a range of challenging themes such as illness, grief and betrayal with his inimitable graceful touch. He takes the reader from Switzerland to San Francisco, and from a young man's attempt to contract the HIV virus to American tourists being ... Weiterlesen

Michelangelo Signorile: Hitting Hard

USA 2005, 309 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Signorile pursues controversy with verve in this briskly penned collection of essays and columns, many of which originally appeared in Out Magazine or The Advocate. Most important are his essays on same-sex couples in the South, the difficulties of the gay rights movement in Italy, the eventful lives of gay male truckers, and a tough-minded high school student in Fayetteville, ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: Beneath the Skin

USA 2004, 305 pp., brochure, € 17.49
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A boost in Rechy's literary visibility following the 2002 biography »Outlaw« makes the time ripe for this career-spanning collection of essays. The anthology organizes its pieces generally by decade with occasional afterthoughts. One of the goals is to demonstrate Rechy's versatility beyond the homosexual themes (from AIDS to homosexuality in film) that made him famous. The anthology includes a reportage ... Weiterlesen

Oscar Wilde: De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings

UK 1999, 296 pp.,brochure, € 12.95
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Wordsworth
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: Palimpsest

USA 1995, 448 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated gay life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Tony Kushner: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer

USA 1995, 224 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Theatre Communications Group
In this first collection of writings by Tony Kushner, including his play »Slavs!«, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright grapples with the timeless issues of bigotry, war, faith, love, as well as tackling the contemporary topics as AIDS, gay rights and the moral horrors of the Gulf War.